Commending the Virginia National Guard.
Commending the Virginia State Police.
Voter registration; list maintenance; listsof decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to theDepartment of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previousweek. Currently, this list is transmitted monthly. The bill requiresthe general registrars to use this information to conduct list maintenanceand to promptly cancel the registration of a person on the list.
Electronic execution of estate planning documents;Uniform Electronic Wills Act. Permits trusts, advance medical directives, and refusals to make anatomical gifts to be signed andnotarized, as appropriate, by electronic means. The bill also codifiesthe Uniform Electronic Wills Act, which permits a testator to executea will by electronic means. The Act requires that the will be signedby two witnesses who are in the physical or electronic presence ofthe testator and acknowledged by the testator and attesting witnessesin the physical or electronic presence of a notary public.
Celebrating the life of Edith Luke Martin.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable RobertS. Bloxom, Sr.
Commending Richard D. Pillow.
Practice of medicine and other healing arts;provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners ofmedicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistanceto treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistanceincludes providing a legal consult fee schedule upon request, schedulingand participating in meetings with a treated patient's attorney uponrequest, participating in trial or de bene esse depositions as needed,and providing a written estimate of the cost of the patient's medical services related to the litigation.
Public institutions of higher education; tuitionand mandatory fee waivers; survivors of criminal sexual assault andcertain other sex crimes. Declares eligible for counseling atno cost and a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at any publicinstitution of higher education any individual who, when he was underthe age of 18 and a resident of the Commonwealth, became the victimof criminal sexual assault, sex trafficking, or child pornography,as evidenced by the conviction of the perpetrator of such crime.The bill provides that any individual who receives such waiver andcounseling shall remain eligible if he maintains a cumulative gradepoint average of at least 2.5 on a scale of 4.0 or its equivalent.
Voter registration; verification of social security numbers; provisional registration status. Requires the general registrars to verify that the name, date of birth, and social security number provided by an applicant on the voter registration application match the information on file in the Social Security Administration database or other database approved by the State Board of Elections (the State Board) before registering such applicant. If the information provided by the applicant does not match the information in such database, the applicant (i) is provisionally registered to vote and notified as to what steps are needed to be fully registered to vote and (ii) is permitted to vote by provisional ballot but such ballot shall not be counted until the voter presents certain information. The bill also requires the general registrars to verify annually no later than August 1 that the name, date of birth, and social security number in the registration record of each registered voter in the registrar's jurisdiction match the information on file with the Social Security Administration or other database approved by the State Board and, in accordance with current law, to initiate the cancellation of the registration of any voter whose registration record information does not match the database information. The State Board is authorized to approve the use of any government database to the extent required to enable each general registrar to carry out the provisions of this bill and to promulgate rules for the use of such database. The Department of Elections is required to provide to the general registrars access to the Social Security Administration database and any other database approved by the State Board. The Department of Elections is further required to enter into any agreement with any federal or state agency to facilitate such access. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023.
Hearing notice by localities. Expands fromonly localities in Planning District 23 to all localities a provisionthat provides that in any instance in which a locality has submitted a timely notice of public hearing to a newspaper published or havinggeneral circulation in the locality and the newspaper fails to publishthe notice, such locality shall be deemed to have met certain noticerequirements so long as the notice was published in the next availableedition. Under current law, this provision that was created by the2020 Regular Session and only applies to localities in Planning District23 will expire on July 1, 2022. The provision in the bill as itapplies to all localities will also expire on July 1, 2022.
Deer hunting; rifle caliber. Authorizesthe use of a .223 caliber centerfire rifle for hunting deer.
